also sprach Keith Edmunds <keith@midnighthax.com> [2006.06.23.1552 +0200]:
> On the bpo website, each package page recommends setting the default to
> 200 and that specific package to 999. What exactly is it that has a
> default value of 500?
If you do not follow that recommendation, all backports.org packages
will be pinned the same way as stable packages, meaning that your
next upgrade could seriously affect the stability (as in "Debian
stable") of your system.
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